Part IV of this Chapter. For the present, let us show how and

in what manner he proposes to introduce in America teachings and rituals of a Freemasonic nature as a part of the teachings of a fraudulent R. C. Order. Continuing in the same article, he says:
Italics Ours.
To Use Rituals and ‘Teachings of Martinist Order, But Nothing of a Masonic Nature.
“The AMORC in North America agreed to add to its teachings and its principles and to its special ceremonies the initiations of several of the allied organizations mentioned above, including the Mar- tinist Order, of which the AMMORC of North Amer- ica is the sole and exclusive Supreme Sanctum for this jurisdiction, but the AMORC has not agreed to conduct any ceremonies or offer any teachings or use any symbolism or ritual pertaining to any other organizations than those mentioned in the above list, and has no plans and no intentions of including in its activities anything of a Freemasonic nature, or of a Theosopohical nature, or of any other organization that may attempt to introduce its activities in America unless it is of some definite mystical, Cosmic, Hermetic organization that may be admitted to the Federation by vote of the dele- gates at some later sessions of the executive council of the Federation.”
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Perhaps he has introduced and is now using that which pur- ports to be the rituals and teachings of the Martinist Order as a fraudulent Masonic device of his R. C. swindle; at least, he has left no room for doubt that such is his intention. Almost a year
* Rosicrucian Digest, April, 1935, p. 98.
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previous, he had declared that:
“Somewhere in the United States, and possibly in Canada and Mexico, are living those few who received initiation in the Martinist Order in Europe
Italics Ours. and elsewhere in the past years, and it is our pur- The Exclusive Au- pose now to get in touch with these and, with the thority of the Martinist mew authority and power granted by the Federa- Order Granted to tion, establish a Supreme Council of the Martinist
Lewis, a Non-Mason? Order for North America and offer its rituals,
Impossible! Martinist teachings and highly spiritual principles to our
Order Is of a Masonic advanced Rosicrucian members.
Nature. “According to the vote of the Supreme Grand Master and Council of the Martinist Order in Europe, the exclusive authority for the Martinist Order for North America rests in the hands of the Supreme Lodge of AMORC through charters granted personally to the Imperator for North America.’”®
The Martinist Order
Mr. Lewis has declared repeatedly that none of the rituals and teachings which he acquired at the Congress of Brussels through ~Fuposi for his fraternal racket, to be used in connection there- with, are of a Freemasonic nature, while at the same time assert- ing that he intends to establish a Supreme Council of the Mar- tinist Order for North America under his exclusive grant of power (!) through Fupost and give the teachings to members of AMORC. That is consistency—genuine Lewistonian racketeering consistency—used to support and promote his fraternal swindle.
The Martinist Order is purely of a Masonic nature, as is well known to all who are informed upon the subject—a fact that no one can successfully deny. It is an absolute prerequisite to member- ship in the Martinist Order that all applicants for membership therein must be and all persons admitted as members thereof shall be MASTER MASONS.
For those not informed on the subject, we quote from a letter of J. Bricaud, former Grand Master of the Martinist Order, as
5 Rosicrucian Digest, December, 1934, p. 69.
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follows:
“To belong to the Martinist Order, as you know, you are required to have the Third Grade (the Master’s degree) of Masonry. Only on this condition is it pos- sible to join the Martinist Order. With the same mail, I am sending to you several copies of the Annualis [nitia- tiques. In one of these numbers you will find an historical account of the Martinist Order.’”®
As a matter of sober and solemn fact, Lewis does not possess the authority he claims from the Martinist Order—such authority could not be granted to him for the reason that he is not a Master Mason. Nor did he receive such authority through the Congress of Brussels, via Fuposi, because the authentic Martinist Order was not represented, and did not participate in that Congress of clandestinism. Mr. C. Chevillon, Grand Master of the Martinist Order, who is also the Sovereign Grand Master General of the Masonic Order Ancient and Primitive of Memphis and Mizraim for France, has denounced that spurious Congress in no uncertain terms. There was a clandestine Martinist Order, known as the ‘“‘Martiniste and Synarchique Ordre,’ represented in that Con- gress by Mr. Victor Blanchard, otherwise known as Sar Yesir, who was one of the three Imperators who formed the ‘Supreme Triangle” of the Fuposi—the other two being Danthine, alias Sar Hieronymus, Imperator of Europe, and H. Spencer Lewis, alias Sar Alden, Imperator of America. The “Supreme Triangle”
of Fuposi, shall have further and more elaborate consideration in